Unlike most British watercolorists of the time, she often uses a thick application of watercolor and she regularly depicts plants on the taxonomic edge that she finds, along with more typical species along the highways and byways where she botanizes.

Perhaps her nationality keeps her from impugning the character of the narrator or the sympathy of the reader, but then Edwards explains that the woman is a well known character in the area: "She paints, she botanizes, and I think they said she writes.

In terms of out-of-class activities, Henslow and Darwin went on field trips together to collect the insects that Darwin particularly fancied and also to botanize, collecting specimens for Henslow's herbarium which still exists and has recently received attention from a group of historians and botanists (Kohn et al.

On their way north to Acapulco, the ships stayed four months in Lima and a month in Guayaquil, permitting Haenke and his French colleague Louis Nee to botanize and zoologize inland to their hearts' content.

Though I am here to botanize, I am surrounded by people who generously and enthusiastically call my attention to a succession of gray herons, cormorants, black kites, and bitterns, and I become a birder by default.

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